Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
Airport: US English.
Airfield: English English.
Aerodrome: English French.
Well good luck arriving at Heathrow Airport on your way to Warton Aerodrome...
Back in the early 70s when I was an ATC cadet we were taught a definition which said:
"An airfield is a place where aircraft might normally take-off and land. An aerodrome is an airfield with explicitly defined runways, usually (but not always) with hard runways rather than or as well as grass ones. An Airport is an airfield or aerodrome where one would be able to get customs and immigration facilities (even if they were not normally resident)".
This all sounded sensible and rational, but I subsequently found out that these definitions were only found in a 1974 ATC Aircrft OOperations Syllabus - they were not accepted in the wider world.
PDR